The Julian Street Inn – Shelter for the Homeless: Courtyard fountain with hand-painted and hand-glazed tilework and Courtyard Fountain with Lion’s Head – Sketches

Cast-concrete lion's head on the back wall of the tiled fountain located in the courtyard of the Julian Street Inn.

Tilework with diagonal squared pattern with four-petal flower in interchanging green and salmon, cladding the base wall of the fountain.

Christopher Alexander recognized the importance of the geometry of centers and for years he was looking for the common structural features among buildings, paintings, streets, carpets, doors, windows, etc. which have "life" and "wholeness". He identified fifteen structural features which ...

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

Full-scale paper mock-up of the final tile pattern used for cladding the base of the courtyard fountain, painted with gouache.

A full scale gypsum-cast model of a lion’s head for the courtyard fountain.

Photograph of fountain with the hand-glazed tiles cladding the fountain base, and the cast concrete lion’s head.